Capturing the Beat Moment: Cultural Politics and the Poetics of Presence

by Erik Mortenson

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Examining "the moment" as one of the primary motifs of Beat writing, Erik Mortenson offers the first book to investigate immediacy and its presence and importance in Beat writing. Capturing the Beat Moment: Cultural Politics and the Poetics of Presence places an expanded canon of Beat writers in an early postmodern context that highlights their importance in American poetics and provides an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080933013X
• ISBN13: 9780809330133
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"